52 AMKKICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



rior edge speckled with brown, and a double brown dot behind middle; abdomen, 

 first three segments and tuft pale ochreous, other segments fuscous; legs whitish, 

 banded with blackish-brown. 



Forewing: asby-gray, with lines, spots and shades of brown. The basal area 

 extends to inner third at middle of wing and to inner fourth of costa and dor- 

 sum, outwardly it is blackish-brown, especially intense below middle and on dor- 

 sum for the outer half of the area ; above and before the intense brown color the 

 balance of the area is gray, strigulated with brown. Beyond is a broad grayish- 

 white fascia, outwardly defined by a narrow, nearly obsolete brown shade from 

 middle of costa to anal angle, outwardly oblique to upper third, then inwardly 

 oblique to lower third, thence concave to dorsum, where its inner edge ends in a 

 small brown dot. The whitish middle fascia is more or less dotted with brown, 

 and a faint line of same color parallels its inner border. Beyond the narrow 

 dark fascia a broader streak of shining gray scales starts below costa at outer 

 fourth, goes to anal angle, circles the ocellus beneath to termen. The ocellus is 

 in the middle of the wing of fine whitish lines on dark brown ground, with six 

 or eight black dots and horizontal dashes; there are several fine short black lines 

 in the shining gray streak below the ocellus and a third below costa. The costa 

 is whitish-gray, finely and regularly marked with short brown lines, with four 

 larger spots in outer half, the inner of which sends a brown streak obliquely to 

 middle of wing, the next one sends a brown streak to termen beneath apex, with 

 n spur between termen and ocellus. There is a brown-black semi-circle in apex, 

 the outer half on the cilia, through the middle of it runs a dark brown terminal 

 line, this line in the middle of wing is nearly obsolete, with a white line beyond 

 it, it continues as a brown line around anal angle. Cilia fuscous, brown out- 

 wardly at apex, and white inwardly in middle. 



Hind wing: light bronzy-brown, paler at base, underside gray. 



Underside forewing: smoky brown, with geminated whitish costal spots. Some 

 of the female specimens are dotted with light reddish ochreous, on upper part of 

 middle light fascia, and the two lower ends of the costal streaks on outer half 

 are the same color. 



Twenty-five specimens: Philadelphia, June 3d to 23d, Frank 

 Haimbach ; Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 14th, Miss Braun ; Wisconsin, 

 Dr. Nason ; Riverton, N. J., E. Daecke. One specimen from U. S. 

 National Museum bearing labels " Stegauoptycha near Saliciana 

 Clem., and approximating pmiperana (Europe) but apparently dis- 

 tinct from both C. V. R. 1886 " (Wlsm.), and a smaller label refer- 

 ring to the slight cocoon and pupa case " found on ground Augt. 4 

 iss. Augt. 7, 1877." 



Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. 



This species is close to my E. ilicifoliana, bred from ilex in New 

 Jersey and North Carolina. It is a generally larger and lighter 

 species, and can be separated by the absence of the oblique 

 brown line from end of cell to apex, which is always present in 

 ilicifoliana. 



